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Cartel system of states : an Economic theory of International Politics

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Oxford University Press 2023 UKDescription: 207pISBN:
  • 9780197632277
DDC classification:
  • 320.12 AVI.C
Other classification:
  • X:(W:19)
Summary: Why are the citizens of neighboring regions that lie across an international border often subject to very different governance systems? In The Cartel System of States, Avidit Acharya and Alexander Lee provide a powerful and field-shaping theory to address a fundamental issue in world politics: the character of the territorial nation-state. They contend that the defining feature of the modern territorial state system works as an economic cartel in which states have local, bounded monopolies in governing their citizens. States refuse to violate each other's monopolies, even when they could do so easily. Drawing from the centuries long process of modern state formation, The Cartel System of States explains both how the present system of territorial states--by no means a foregone conclusion in retrospect--took over the world and how it might change in the future.
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Book Book Dept. of Political Science General Stacks Dept. of Political Science Non-fiction 320.12 AVI.C (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available POL23660
General General Kerala University Library General Stacks Kerala University Library X:(W:19) R3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 320.12 AVI.C Available 324177

Why are the citizens of neighboring regions that lie across an international border often subject to very different governance systems? In The Cartel System of States, Avidit Acharya and Alexander Lee provide a powerful and field-shaping theory to address a fundamental issue in world politics: the character of the territorial nation-state. They contend that the defining feature of the modern territorial state system works as an economic cartel in which states have local, bounded monopolies in governing their citizens. States refuse to violate each other's monopolies, even when they could do so easily. Drawing from the centuries long process of modern state formation, The Cartel System of States explains both how the present system of territorial states--by no means a foregone conclusion in retrospect--took over the world and how it might change in the future.

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